Can You Feel It: How Dance Music Conquered the World

10pm, BBC FourDance music hits BBC Four’s Friday music heritage slot with this fine three-part series. Tonight’s opener is the story of the outliers and renegades who created disco, house and techno and then watched with amazement as their experiments went nuclear. The series speaks to all the right people (Tom Moulton, Derrick May, Gerald Simpson and many more) and does a good job of communicating both the arms-aloft hysteria engendered by the music and the social contexts from which it sprung. Phil Harrison

The Island Strait

8pm, ITVSpring in the Menai Strait sees the start of the tourist season as the sun begins to break through the clouds. Good news arrives with the improving weather as Menai, the olive ridley turtle washed up outside Frankie’s Sea Zoo, starts to make good progress, while landscape photographer Glyn hosts an exhibition. Mike Bradley

Ancient Invisible Cities

Michael Scott travels to Istanbul for the last and best show in the series that uses 3D scanning to disclose the hidden secrets of ancient cities. Palaces, aqueducts and a hippodrome get the treatment, but most interesting are former cathedral, mosque and now museum Hagia Sophia and the magical Süleymaniye Mosque. MB

A Discovery of Witches

9pm, Sky1“I’m craving her,” says vampire Matthew of Diana, witch and academic. Which, you’d guess, may cause trouble up ahead. Adding to her potential problems, Diana’s summoning of an ancient book has alerted all manner of supernatural chancers. Entertaining, in a Twilight for grownups style. Jonathan Wright

Brooklyn Castle

9pm, PBS America“Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team,” we are told in Katie Dellamaggiore’s award-winning documentary. It introduces Brooklyn 318, a junior high school that bags national chess titles despite 70% of the students coming from impoverished families. MB

The Luke McQueen Pilots

11.05pm, BBC One

After his vampire exposé mock-doc and an ultra-awks sex travelogue, the third of Luke McQueen’s daft pilots is a delirious send-up of staged dating shows like Love Island. Six attractive young hopefuls vie for the hapless standup’s affections, though the real star is a demonic Teddy Ruxpin. Graeme Virtue

Film choice

The Hunger Games

6.15pm, Film4

The first in the series based on Suzanne Collins’s bestsellers creates a mildly satirical dystopia, in which a totalitarian state channels the aggression of the masses into a televised gladiatorial game. Witness the creation of Jennifer Lawrence’s courageous, self-reliant hero, Katniss Everdeen. Paul Howlett

Sport

Cricket: The County Championship 10.30am, Sky Sports Main Event The final day of the fixture.